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- Tali
I need some help!
I’m wring a paper that’s suppose to connect postmodernism, views on death and imagery of death (ie- andy warhols death and disaster series) and art. I need a thesis statement stating somehow that death associated with postmodernism is parallel to the romantics and an adverse to the enlightenment and modernism.I just can’t seem to articulate this message and come up with some kind of an argument. Can anyone give me some ideas?
- jaylarson0
house of leaves?
- ********0
modernism = mechanistic utopian denial of death, decay, mechanical breakdown
postmodernism = resuracing of suppressed death material
I'm just talking through my ass
- Jaline0
I think this is the wrong forum to ask this. I could help, but I only know enough about postmodernism and not enough about history. Plus, I can't think at this time in the morning ;)
Good luck though.
- ********0
modernism=societal conservative worldview. importance of age and status. identity. art=liberation from the whole. deep rooted values of freedom and humanism. feeling of revolt. implicit feeling of worth.
post-modernism=individual liberal worlds. importance of youth and pleasure. loss of identification with the whole. atomization of belief and activities. art = search for identity. loose massified commercial values. feeling of helplessness and loneliness. implicit feeling of absurdity
- jaylarson0
post modernism seems to take much from and is, a part of intertextuality, check out wikipedia on it too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Int…
PM also splits up linear time, give a mosaic of interrelated evnets, and lets the audience, with the help of an author, to form a gestalt.
post modern film examples, pulp fiction; run lola, run; memento.
literature: 'bodies and souls' by john rechy, 'almanac of the dead' & 'ceremony' by leslie marmon silko.
i hope this unorganized, yet slightly postmodern post will help some. good luck on the paper.
- ********0
my comment is the only one that makes sense to me... but then, it would
- M0NEYCIDE0
right now i'm distracting myself from a review and interpretation paper of this
http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/nail…
so i'm not going to think too hard. personally this would a good place, lots of educated art types here yo
- mayo0
I have a book called "The Death of Eros" or something (someone borrowed it so I can't check and Google didn't bring it up). It was about the relationship and meaning of death portrayed in art throughout the ages. Maybe a library near you may have it and maybe it might help?
sorry I couldn't be a little more helpful.